one of my customer has strange question which I do not know the answer. So I want to ask here first, before I ask the GTAC.

Imagine an Excel file with hyperlinks of Solid Edge documents (on file system or on Insight). Is there any posibility to insert that part into the opened assembly in Solid Edge by clicking on link in Excel file?

Re: Insert part to asm using Excel file

I don't think this is supported natively... IF anything I would assume the file would open as a part and not insert into an assembly.

but SE has the exposed API and Excel has embedded VBA...

I think one could easily create a macro in Excel that would hook up to a running instance of SE, Establish the open assembly as the active document, and then insert the selcted file linked from the excel table.

We have done this with hyperlinks from Insight. The user is searching for the parts in SharePoint and from the web site with the search result he copied via clipboard (right mouse button "Copy Link") the URL and then it would be pasted into the open assembly automatically.

This is the same technique you can use OOTB in Solid Edge to copy a part from one assembly to another!

This is a nice way to transfer information from one application to another!